Brandon Beach, GNFCC President & CEO, introduced Jeff Mango, President, Verizon Wireless Georgia/Alabama Region, as the featured speaker, at the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Enterprise breakfast at the Metropolitan Club on Tuesday, June 28, 2011.
Jeff Mango told us that Verizon Wireless has 5,000 employees in the state of Georgia with 3,000 of those employees in the North Fulton Area. He discussed the changes in technology starting from 1973 with the first cell phone shaped like a brick that had huge batteries. He told us that text messaging was first started in 1993, but did not catch on with the public until 2000 or 2001. The Motorola Star Tact was the first modern cell phone invented in 1996 which cost $2000. Average monthly cost of cell phone bills has lowered from around $200 in the 1990’s to around $50 today. Another common device is the GPS whether on cell phones, in cars or on computers. Social networking has changed everything. In the year 2000, we had around 100 million people using cell phones while we have 255 million cell phone users in 2010. There are about 2.4 million people in the wireless industry today. The goal for wireless is to have everything we use work together so our systems are all connected.
The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors for 2011 are Lee Doernberg and Terry Kime for all their work with the GNFCC Johns Creek Alliance Networking.
Frazier and Deeter, L.L.C. certified public accountants and advisors, were the sponsors for this great event at the Metropolitan Club in Alpharetta.
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| Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Enterprise at the Metropolitan Club |
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| Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Enterprise at the Metropolitan Club, Jeff Mango, Presidnet, Verizon Wireless GA.AL Region, |
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| Jeff Mango, Presidnet, Verizon Wireless GA.AL Region, Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Enterprise at the Metropolitan Club |
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